The images were created by cutting paper with an Xacto knife. The black and white illustrations were created with a single sheet of cut paper. Color illustrations required some pasting.
I chose to work in this rather obscure technique for several reasons: It has an appealing graphic quality. The process of drawing-by-cutting feels like a close cousin to my other preferred medium, woodcut prints. Finally, the author, Hans Christian Andersen himself, also made paper cut-outs! Many of Andersen's unique, creative, and sometimes bizaare, paper cut-outs are preserved in the Hans Christian Andersen museum in Odense:http://hca.museum.odense.dk/klip/billedstart.asp?language=en